30.000 severe weather warnings of the German weather, had to spend service this year. Extreme weather conditions caused nationwide high damage and cost the lives of many people.
storms, slippery roads, and Floods have also caused in this year’s nationwide high damage and several lives. Alone, eight deaths were reported during the storm “Friederike” in January, as the German weather service (DWD) said in its severe weather balance in 2018.
several tornadoes registered meteorologists in the course of the year. Added to this were the increasingly heavy rain, hail, lightning strikes, as well as field and forest fires, due to the ongoing drought.